In these spirited essays John D. Caputo continues the project helaunched with Radical
Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction worktogether. Caputo claims that we are
not born into this world hard-wired to knowBeing Truth or the Good and we are not vessels of
a Divine or other omnipotentsupernatural force. Focusing on how various contemporary
philosophers developaspects of this fragmented view of the life world in areas such as madness
friendship democracy gender science the end of ethics religion andmysticism this
animated study by one of America's leading continental philosophersshakes the foundations of
religion and philosophy even as it gives them newlife.
